Major Projects

Sports Facilities & Parks

Yankee Stadium

Owner:	New York Yankees
Location:	161st Street and Jerome Avenue Bronx, NY
Client:	Turner Construction Co.
Value:	$69,800,000

The new stadium’s design, by HOK Sport, consists of two separate structures. The exterior is a wall circling the perimeter of the Yankees’ new property, and resembles the pre-renovation exterior of the original Yankee Stadium. The interior is a modern ballpark, with increased modern amenities that have become a staple of every new ballpark. The signature frieze, the lattice work that once rimmed the original stadium’s roof, adorns the new stadium’s roof.
The field’s dimensions are identical to those at the previous Yankee Stadium. The new stadium seats approximately 51,000 fans, with a total capacity of approximately 53,000 (including standing room), compared with 57,545 in the original Yankee Stadium. In addition, there are over 60 luxury boxes between the second level and the upper deck.

E-J’s scope included the fit-out of all lighting and power in the Left Field, Home Plate, and Right Field areas, as well as the Architectural lighting control system and the temporary lighting power systems for the entire project.

USTA National Tennis Center

Owner:	USTA
Location:	Flushing Meadow Corona Park Flushing, NY
Client:	Turner Construction Co.
Value:	$12,000,000

The National Tennis Center is the home of the annual US Open Tennis Championship. This project was the expansion and redevelopment of a forty-two acre site with the new 23,000 seat Arthur Ashe Stadium as its centerpiece. Installation of all Low-Voltage Systems including Broadcast TV/Radio, Scoring, Internal Cable TV System, Internal Audio, Voice, and Computer Networking. This project was a turnkey project and included the cabling system as well as the active components. The cable plant consists of over 2.2 million feet (415 miles) of high performance cable with over 80,000 terminations. E-J also designed and implemented a fiber optic network for the entire campus on behalf of the USTA.

Expansion and redevelopment of the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, the home of the annual US Open Grand Slam Championship Tournament. The existing site is 17.3 acres and is being expanded by 24.9 acres consisting of a new 23,000 seat Arthur Ashe Stadium, fifteen site courts, nine new practice courts, a new food court and renovations to the existing stadium.

E-J’s scope included the installation of turnkey multi-media systems, covering network (CBS & International) broadcast, internal cable TV distribution, scoring systems and audio capabilities covering telephone, umpire, and scorekeeper announcements. Systems supplied include television head end equipment, remote fiber optic cameras, outdoor high capacity loudspeakers and all electronic equipment.

BROADCAST SYSTEMS

The broadcast system installed by E-J is used by CBS/USA-TV and all major foreign networks for full coverage of the US Open . The stadium also contains six TV studios, three interview rooms, thirty TV broadcast booths and ten radio broadcast booths. The stadium has full camera coverage with camera platforms. Camera boxes are each equipped with multiple custom-made Triax, Precision Video, Coax, and Audio Cables runback to the teleproduction area. This teleproduction area is linked via a fiber optic network back to a remote satellite up link site.

The site has four show courts with full broadcast capabilities. The show courts also have fixed cameras with a fiber optic link to the TV head end system in the stadium for broadcasters to view on air matches without need for a crew. It is also fed into the internal TV distribution.

INTERNAL TV DISTRIBUTION

The USTA campus contains a dedicated cable TV system. Its' five miles of Broadband trunk cable & eighteen miles of TV drop cable feed over 1000 TV’s throughout the site with a variety of programming choices. This state of the art 750MHz system is capable of generating over 117 channels from a multitude of sources, including direct feeds from the many cameras placed throughout the stadium, as well as regular broadcast TV, financial news and a variety of movie choices.

AUDIO

The Audio system is comprised of many stand alone sub systems, which are linked together via a computer controlled digital audio matrix custom programmed by E-J. This 15,000 watt system is carried throughout the complex as a second audio program (SAP) distributed on the cable TV system.

In addition, the audio system generates the output for the speech reinforcement of the umpire and scorekeeper on Stadium Court and the show courts. Outdoor loudspeaker systems are used for this and are sized based on coverage area.

The audio system also distributes audio signals for broadcasters use. These signals are umpire, scorekeeper, ambient sound, and interview room feeds.

COMPUTERIZED SCORING SYSTEM (IDS)

All courts including Stadium Court are fed back to main scoring computer room in new stadium. Scoreboards are throughout campus. Scores and statistics are relayed to all scoreboards. The Information Display System (IDS) maintains all scores and statistics for all matches including those in progress on site and is updated in real time.

All courts (including stadium) are equipped with clocks, scoreboards and radar guns that tie into scoring system.

Throughout the site PCs tied in to systems can retrieve match statistics on current or past matches.
The scoring system is tied together on the USTA Fiber Optic Network and is the first permanent scoring system of its kind.

USTA FIBER OPTIC NETWORK

Five miles of Fiber Optic Cables tie the entire campus together supporting multiple applications.

E-J designed and implemented this Siecor fiber optic network to support systems including Video, Audio, scoring, point of sale, USTA Intranet and gateway to the internet.

TELEPHONE

The telephone cable plant, a certified Lucent/AT&T Systimax Structured Cabling System, is fully distributed to the entire campus. The new stadium houses the USTA’s upgraded Northern Telecom PBX system. The stadium will have four telephone closets per level. Riser cabling emanates from the PBX room. Telephone stations are run for back office, media rooms, private suites, broadcast booths and pay phones throughout stadium.

For the site, feeders are run from stadium PBX to hubs throughout site for distribution to field courts, outbuildings, pay phones, teleproduction area, and corporate hospitality areas. All site work is outside plant with power protection on all cable terminations.

This system is cabled to provide over 14,000 telephone lines in its current configuration. This telephone system will support many applications including analog voice (POTS), digital voice, ISDN, IEEE802.3 Ethernet, IEEE 802.5 Token Ring, and RS232D. E-J, a Lucent SCS VAR, has provided the USTA with a fifteen year performance warranty for this cabling plant.

USTA National Tennis Center - Louis Armstrong Stadium

Owner:	National Tennis Association
Location:	Flushing Meadow Corona Park Corona, NY
Client:	Turner Construction Co.
Value:	$3,500,000

Louis Armstrong Stadium was the main venue of the US Open until 1997 when the new Arthur Ashe Stadium was completed. Originally named the Singer Bowl, Louis Armstrong Stadium was built in 1964 for the Worlds Fair.

As the final Phase of the USTA's Redevelopment Project, Louis Armstrong Stadium underwent a major renovation and modernization in under 1 years time.

EJ's scope of work included ALL electrical, communication, broadcast and technical systems within this facility. Electrically the entire existing electrical system was gutted from the service to final loads. A new service and distribution system was installed. Service and distribution equipment included 5kV, 277/480V and 120/208V equipment and wiring. Also installed was entire fit-out of public spaces within the stadium including extensive architectural lighting of the Great Hall. Also included was retail and concession space and a new ticket office.

Modernization of this decades old facility included installation of state-of-the-art broadcast cabling infrastructure to match the newly constructed Arthur Ashe Stadium. A modern data/voice infrastructure was also installed to handle the Ticket Office, Retail, Concession, Scoring and back office requirements. A new Broadband TV Distribution and Audio system was installed. All systems were integrated into the new existing campus systems, bringing the entire campus to the leading edge of technology.

All life safety systems were also installed at this time. With one month until the US Open the fire department required installation of a Fire Pump. Within this month EJ engineered and installed a complete service and hookup of this fire pump.

Yankee Stadium – Concourse Lighting Replacement

Owner:	Yankee Stadium
Location:	River Ave/161 Street Bronx, NY
Client:	URS
Value:	$698,286

E-J's scope included the replacement of a total of 696 fixtures with (284) 277V 40W biax Visa lighting stemmed fixtures, (282) 277V F3278 4' long Legion series fourteen enclosed gasketed weather resistant and corrosion free surface mounted florescent fixtures, (63) 277V F9678 8' long Legion series fourteen enclosed gasketed weather resistant and corrosion free surface mounted florescent fixture, (23) 277V 8' long surfaced mounted Legion series 606mod and (44) 120V 20W compact fluorescent Kurt Versen.

Shea Stadium

Owner:	City of New York Parks Department
Location:	Flushing Meadow Park Corona, NY
Client:	City of New York Parks Department
Value:	$4,360,000

Electrical maintenance of all electrical systems and scoreboards including Diamond Vision. Maintenance includes field electrical maintenance, audio-visual hook-ups with affiliated TV, radio, electronic signs, concession stands, lighting and new construction in the Stadium. Also completed five major projects in the Stadium.

E-J provides year round maintenance for the stadium including all labor, material and equipment. Maintenance includes the operation of all scoreboards, Diamond Vision, electronic signs and concession stands in the stadium.

We also provide maintenance to The NY Mets. We are responsible for all media hook-ups in and outside the stadium for radio, TV and cable.

We have just concluded the replacement of all the main feeders (42 sets of 4-1 million MCM cable underground) along with the entire replacement of (6) 4000 amp main switches. Installed new 350kW generator to new location and the completion of the replacement and re-engineering of new field lighting.

E-J has been renewed their award of multi-year contracts along with a high recommendation from stadium operations.

Greenwich Country Day School Lower School

Owner:	Greenwich Country Day School
Location:	200 Old Church Road Greenwich, CT
Client:	Pavarini Construction Co.
Value:	$1,143,151

A multiphase private school renovation and addition. E-J worked with the construction team from the design development stage providing budgeting, scheduling, logistics information and installed a temporary infrastructure system including power, CATV, voice services and fiber optic data services. The project consisted of underground high voltage and secondary feeders, new power, lighting, voice and data communication systems, fire alarm systems, intercom systems, paging systems, scoreboard systems, stage dimming systems, and motorized backboard systems. The work included new classrooms, renovations to existing classrooms, new main entrance, new gathering center/gymnasium, renovations to two existing gymnasiums, locker room renovations, science building renovations and state-of-the-art video conferencing center/computer lab.

Hudson River Park Trust

Owner:	Hudson River Park Trust
Location:	14th & 23rd Street New York, NY
Client:	Hudson River Park Trust
Value:	$130,600

E-J's scope of work included the replacement of 100W HPS lamps, ballasts, jelly jar kits, photocells, 15A cartridge fuses at the light poles, at both the 14th Street & 23rd Street Parks and 30A cartridge fuses at the control panel, the rewiring of the control panel and the replacement of soccer field lights at the 23rd Street Park on the West Side.